Agile Project Management & PMI-ACP® Prep

If you are seeking an in-depth course on the whats, whys, and hows of Agile project management, this course is for you. You will learn, through a mix of discussion and hands-on activities, what Agile project management is (and isn't), and will leave with practical, real-world tools for transitioning to agile management practices, planning an agile project, and managing the project to completion. This course covers the tools, techniques, knowledge, skills, domains, and tasks listed in the PMI-ACP® Examination Content Outline, and may be used to satisfy the 21 contact hours of Agile Project Management education required for initial agile certification.

Course Information

Who Should Attend

Duration

Where

Two day minimum and discounts apply for onsite training. Up to 25 students can attend this course.

Overview

If you are seeking an in-depth course on the whats, whys, and hows of Agile project management, this course is for you. You will learn, through a mix of discussion and hands-on activities, what Agile project management is (and isn’t), and will leave with practical, real-world tools for transitioning to agile management practices, planning an agile project, and managing the project to completion.

This is an in-person, highly interactive, three-day (21 contact hours) course led by an instructor with years of real-world experience in both traditional and Agile project management, and who is actively engaged in helping organizations transition to Agile. So come with your questions, expecting to receive solid answers In addition, you will receive a training guide, which will be yours to keep as a reference.

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®

This course covers the tools, techniques, knowledge, skills, domains, and tasks listed in the PMI-ACP® Examination Content Outline, and may be used to satisfy the 21 contact hours of Agile Project Management education required for initial certification.

Project Management Institute PDUs

If you already hold a certification with the Project Management Institute, this course may be used to satisfy up to 21 PDUs. Be sure to consult pmi.org for specific applicability.

Detailed Course Guide

Introduction to Agile

History of Agile

Understanding the Agile Manifesto

Complexity and Empirical Process Control

How Agile methods are different

Agile Frameworks and Terminology

Overview of Agile Roles

Agile Teams

Key Concept: Self Organizing Teams

Creating Effective and Empowered Teams

Team Dynamics: What to expect when forming teams

Communication

Collaboration and Negotiation

Meeting Rules and Team Charters

Agile Leadership

Servant Leadership

Emotional Intelligence

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation

Conflict Resolution

Facilitation Techniques

Strategic Agile Planning

Vision and the Business Case

Roadmapping

Chartering

The Product Backlog

What is a Backlog?

Prioritization

Agile Requirements and Analysis

Agile approach compared to traditional approaches

User Stories

Why User Stories?

Types of User Stories

Gathering User Stories

The 3 parts of the User Story

User Roles

Acceptance Criteria

Writing good User Stories

Agile Design

Horizontal and Vertical Slicing

Epic

Progressive Elaboration and Emergent Design

Agile Estimation

Issues with Conventional Estimation

How Agile Estimation differs

Estimation Units

Planning Poker

Affinity Estimation

Release Planning

What is a Release?

Key Concept: Velocity

Estimating Dates using Velocity

Projecting Cost using Velocity

Overview of the Release Planning process

Elements of a Release Plan

Schedule-based Release Planning

Scope-based Release Planning

Maintaining the Release Plan

Story Mapping

Iteration Planning

The Importance of Defining Done

Who participates in Iteration Planning?

Capacity Planning

Iteration Planning/Scheduling

Iteration Planning/Detail Planning

Iteration Execution and Review

The 3 Themes of Iteration Execution

Focus on Throughput

Team Space

Information Radiators

Conducting Daily Standups

Signs of a dysfunctional team

Iteration Review

Purpose

How to conduct

Agile Metrics and Reporting

The cost of Metrics

Troubles with Traditional Metrics

Understanding Agile Metrics

Common Agile Metrics

EVM on Agile projects

Agile tooling

Retrospectives

Purpose

Conducting an effective retrospective

What to do with the outcome of the retrospective

Quality Management on Agile Project

QA or QC?

How agile organizations view Testing

Assuring quality through process

Assuring quality through engineering practices

Risk Management on Agile Projects

Distributed Teams

Common Obstacles

Tools and techniques for success

Contracts on Agile Projects

Agile and audit compliance

PMI-ACP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.